Home page PR=4 / Internal pages PR=0

[Rani]

Hello everyone,
I was asked by a friend to do some SEO work on his website.
Amongst many other things that i did , i also changed the names of some files to fit my targeted keywords.
Of course the PR of these "new" pages dropped immediately to zero.
This was done around end of December.
By mid January Google cached and indexed these pages for the first time and they also show up in the SERP.They are not ranked very high but nevertheless they show up.

But the Page Rank of these pages remains zero.
I heard somewhere that Google updates pagerank every 3 months.
Is that true?
Does that mean that i have to wait 3 months from now and if by then my PR doesn't work out i could start worrying?

[Jaid]

Make sure the pages are spiderable. A pagerank update in the 'green bar' sense has not happened since your changes so you would see no pr yet.

Green bar page rank has no impact whatsoever on rank, and is a reflection of link quantity.

[Rani]

"Make sure the pages are spiderable"

If the pages where cached,isn't that a good enough indication that they are spiderable?

[robzilla]

It does indeed seem to be true that public PR is updated quarterly. The last update was in October 2005, so if your pages were placed online in December it stands to reason that they shouldn't have any PR showing on the toolbar now. The next update is expected in the next couple of weeks.

[moftary]

If any!
I had that feeling that toolbar will never be updated again.